u/RecognitionNo4852

Enlightenment pills are basically a metaphor for saying “enlightenment is about hocus pocus magic and chilling with the magical Easter bunny.” Well I for one am only asking rhetorically since I think I honestly figured out the ropes that lead to actual enlightenment, and I think meditators on Reddit need me for this topic.

Thoughts are the ego, the mind is the ego. Thoughts are irrational as long as facts exist outside of the mind and not inside of the mind. The mind is forever detached from anything that the mind is not aware of. so in other words, thoughts are irrational, we need to observe the world around us without thinking in order to figure out the facts. The sky doesn’t turn slightly pinkish and red because the gods want us to commit a human sacrifice, instead the sky turns to that color simply because it does. life is random like that. You see how it is possible to even achieve a skeptical mindset by not thinking about things too deeply? That’s how over thinking is a burden that leads to superstitions.

But however, you probably noticed something about me, I like to type words on the internet, don’t I? That displays that I do indeed think. Absolutely! I would never deny that I think about things eventually. No one can remain 100% thoughtless for their entire lives. Meditating is only a break from thinking, but you will be thinking after you‘re done meditating. Which is why thoughts are not completely irrational, you just need your thoughts to be guided by facts, but meditating helps you with that path. So in order to seek enlightenment by meditating, is do not view meditating as “the enlightenment button that magically works.” Instead think of meditating as a recharge. The human mind is like a battery and sometimes it needs to be charged And meditating is a method to achieving that. But at the same time, can you really obtain enlightenment by ONLY meditating? No, of course not. It is best to take breaks between studying narcissistic personality traits and meditating. That way you are constantly switching between learning from the mistakes of the ego and meditating. That should make you a very pragmatic Buddhist. Also you could study other things if you’re interested, like science and philosophy. By the way, when I meditate, I make certain to breathe AS SOON as thought creeps up in my mind. I’m like, “BAD THOUGHT! BAD THOUGHT! STAY AWAY! SHOO! SHOO!” And so I breathe and breathe.

To be a true absurdist is to disagree with Albert Camus and Jean Paul Sartre. The two would encourage you to disagree with them anyways, otherwise you’re not being yourself as an absurdist philosopher.

When life is incredibly obstructive to the point where you think, “oh no life is going to kill me in a way.” How is it an act of faith to think to yourself, “actually we shall see if that is truly the case.” But how do we see? By being impulsive? Nope, gotta wait for the evidence to bake before coming up with any accusations. Even when scientists conduct experiments, patience is required. You are most certainly are a failed philosopher or intellectual only when you are without patience. A philosophy without patience is no philosophy at all. How can we prove that anything in photosynthesis is real without patience? It requires patience to plant and treat a plant. Patience is even required to build meaning in life like an existentialist would. Suppose, you like gardening, to you gardening is the meaning of life that you have built on your own, and it required patience.

While it is refreshing to breathe energy vampires out of your mind and body, there is something wrong with the Idea of only being emotional when you meditate since traditionally, meditating is not supposed to be emotional.
for those who don’t know, the reason why some of social media is forgetting that meditating is not supposed to be emotional traditionally speaking is because of the efforts of new agers integrating therapy into meditation sessions. Which albeit, there’s nothing wrong with integrating therapy into meditation sessions. That idea alone sounds like an improvement from traditional meditation sessions. Why not invite Sigmund Freud into our meditation sessions so to speak? That’s sounds like an ingenious idea.
But you know there are atheists who are dealing with energy vampires as well, one thing an atheist would want who is facing that situation would want is someone to remind them, “hey you remember that when you were first heavily inspired to meditate? That was the day when you first heard in the news that Chinese Daoists are viewing Spock, the Star Trek character as a symbol of modern mindfulness? Well those good old days have never left us. People still find Leonard Nimoy’s portrayal of Spock to be mindful.” You know why they think Spock is mindful? Because he’s emotionless through and through to the core.

However one thing should be said about Spock… Even scientifically speaking, Spock actually was emotional and it’s not just because he’s only half Vulcan. It’s because he’s a logical man as well as the rest of his of species. Most people are foolish to think that logic is the opposite of being emotional, but logic only lessens emotions. A lot of cultists want us to believe that the human mind is half logical and half emotional. This is not an actual fact though. The human mind actually is a perfect synthesis between logic and emotions. Each and every part within the human brain is equally logical and emotional all at once. So there is no such thing as an emotional half and a logical half, because the entire brain is consistent between logic and emotions. Meaning logic and emotions are too much infused together for us to determine which half of the brain is emotional and which half is logical. BUT if that is true, then that opens the door to a concept that is so mindful that Spock and the rest of his race of Vulcans cannot even handle it. THOUGHTS ARE EMOTIONS, SO GET RID OF THOUGHTS WHEN MEDITATING.

It seems that everyone here believes in the superstitious spook that Absurdism and Existentialism is nihilism. Well looks like I am the only member in this group who actually agrees with Absurdist philosophy and why Absurdist philosophy makes life meaningful. That’s what posers here do not understand. That Absurdism is not Nihilism, it does not promote suicidality. If you cannot see the positivity within Absurdism then you’re a poser.

I confess, I am an over meditator in the eyes of the average guru. There are times when I would meditate for seven days in a row while meditating for an hour, and there was even a time when I meditated for over four hours. But I noticed that almost all of Reddit wants to achieve something similar, hey all power to you all. However, if you’re a beginner at meditating there is something I would like to tell you. while you’re stressing yourself out being like “I need to meditate every day!” Or “I need to mediate over an hour!” Then you need to know that there are people who think I am egocentric by being that ridiculously good at meditating. They would call me a meditative bypasser. I’m not though, I am up to speed with current events, politics and even political science. For me, there’s no reason for me to be afraid of the concept known as positive bypassing. I do think that beginners of meditating need to know why people would call me egocentric by meditating too often. It’s because they are assuming that the thing that drives me is peer pressure. I assure you that I do take that into account. When I meditate I don’t do it because “I WANT TO BE PERFECT! I want to be PEEEEEEEEEERFEEEEECT! HA HA! I GOT TO BE PERFECT!” That is not the mood I am feeling when I am meditating like that. I don’t want beginners to ever feel that sort of vibe, that they HAVE to meditate like that.

Rather than seeing thoughts as being evil and logical, instead see them as being irrational. Thoughts are irrational because facts exists outside the mind while thoughts exists only in the mind. Thoughts are like a cave. When you live in a cave, you can’t see the world outside of the cave. The same is true with thoughts. You can also view thoughts as being equivocal to beliefs. Why do people believe in myths without evidence? Because they never realized that thoughts are irrational or that those specific thoughts are irrational. This insight actually can get rid of energy vampires, when you meditate you want to breathe as soon as a thought surfaces in your mind to make certain that thoughts evaporate into air. Energy vampires count as thoughts. Now would a mindful skeptic believe that reality is an illusion? Maybe, but there’s the off chance that we mindful skeptics prefer to be grounded into reality. Meaning we have to view reality as a weapon against energy vampires. Reality makes it easier to find out if an energy vampire or a psychic vampire is lying, because lies tend to contradict reality and energy vampires are known for lying.

Now the “divine” primitive. It’s good to eliminate the ego by acknowledging that we are all primitive. While the ego pretends to be superior in every angle, we are all primitive on the inside. After all we are all primate. Evolution reveals that humanity and every species all evolved from a primitive species. Why would a white person hate a black person for looking like an ape if the white person knows that he also looks like an ape, since all human beings evolved from primates Including white people? Go ahead and imagine yourself as an ape while meditating and embrace the things that make us primitive.

Also since we will all be 100% thoughtless when we’re dead, try to see death in a more positive light. Example: When we’re dead we will be 100% thoughtless for all of eternity instead of being conscience is whatever afterlife you can think of. That’s like meditating. Only when we meditate, we are only taking breaks from thinking, but when we’re dead we will be meditating forever.

Religious Guy: “I can’t see how Atheism is positive, those guys think than when we die, we won’t experience any type of afterlife, we are just food to the bugs and the soil, our bodies decay and that’s it! That’s even more terrifying than going to Hell!”

Mindful Skeptic: “Actually the Atheist depiction of death isn’t that bad, in fact it’s even less terrifying than going to Heaven. Because when you get to Heaven, you would probably be floating in the clouds while observing your dead body from way high up as all of your loved ones are all crying and mourning over you. In truth, death is not that scary, when we die we won’t have to think about our departure from this world. We would be meditating for all of eternity, because we would be thoughtless for all of eternity. Meditating when alive is just taking a break from thinking, but when you’re dead, that means you’re permanently meditating and you won’t ever say a single statement that is wrong when you die. Technically the dead are the most enlightened people you can think of and that’s because they do not think, they only meditate.”

Rather than seeing thoughts as being evil and logical, instead see them as being irrational. Thoughts are irrational because facts exists outside the mind while thoughts exists only in the mind. Thoughts are like a cave. When you live in a cave, you can’t see the world outside of the cave. The same is true with thoughts. You can also view thoughts as being equivocal to beliefs. Why do people believe in myths without evidence? Because they never realized that thoughts are irrational or that those specific thoughts are irrational. This insight actually can get rid of energy vampires, when you meditate you want to breathe as soon as a thought surfaces in your mind to make certain that thoughts evaporate into air. Energy vampires count as thoughts. Now would a mindful skeptic believe that reality is an illusion? Maybe, but there’s the off chance that we mindful skeptics prefer to be grounded into reality. Meaning we have to view reality as a weapon against energy vampires. Reality makes it easier to find out if an energy vampire or a psychic vampire is lying, because lies tend to contradict reality and energy vampires are known for lying.

Now the “divine” primitive. It’s good to eliminate the ego by acknowledging that we are all primitive. While the ego pretends to be superior in every angle, we are all primitive on the inside. After all we are all primate. Evolution reveals that humanity and every species all evolved from a primitive species. Why would a white person hate a black person for looking like an ape if the white person knows that he also looks like an ape, since all human beings evolved from primates Including white people? Go ahead and imagine yourself as an ape while meditating and embrace the things that make us primitive.